Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], August 25 (ANI): Former world champion and Olympic medalist Mirabai Chanu made a victorious return to motion with a gold medal on the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships at Ahmedabad on Monday.
In her first competitors for the reason that 2024 Paris Olympics, Chanu lifted a mixed 193 kg (84kg snatch+109kg clear and jerk) to not solely high the rostrum but in addition guide a direct ticket to the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, as per Olympics.com.
Taking half within the girls’s 48 kg class, Mirabai’s greatest snatch elevate got here in her second try after lacking her first try. She tried 87 kg in her third try, however didn’t get a sound elevate.
The Olympic medalist began the clear and jerk class effectively with an excellent elevate of 105 kg and upped it with a 109 kg elevate within the second try. While she didn’t elevate 113 kg in her last elevate, it was sufficient to high the rostrum.
The podium was accomplished additional by India’s Sunil Dalvi, who lifted 177kg (76kg+101kg), and Nigeria’s Ruth Asouquo Nyong, who totalled 167kg (72kg+95kg), and took dwelling the bronze.
At Paris 2024, Chanu registered 199kg (88kg snatch+111kg clear and jerk) within the 49kg division, however nonetheless couldn’t get the medal. She had secured a silver medal within the 49 kg class within the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Now, together with her 49 kg weight class discontinued below the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) revised weight classes, she is now part of the 48 kg class.
Coming to the boys’s 56 kg youth division, the gold medal was bagged by India’s Dharmajyoti Dewgharia, who lifted 224kg (97kg snatch+127 clear and jerk), establishing a brand new report within the youth Commonwealth Games in clear and jerk and complete elevate classes.
Payal additionally lifted a complete of 166 kg (73kg snatch+93kg in clear and jerk) within the youth girls’s 48kg, setting a brand new report in all three classes within the Youth Commonwealth.
Also, the previous youth world champion Preetismita Bhoi totalled 150kg (63kg snatch+87kg clear and jerk) to win the youth 44kg girls’s class.
The championships featured over 300 lifters from 31 nations. Chanu had beforehand gained gold in 2013, 2017, 2019 and a silver within the 2015 version. It serves as a qualification occasion for the CWG.
The championships could have medal occasions in eight weight classes for each genders within the senior division. India can be collaborating in youth and junior occasions.
Apart from Mirabai, CWG silver medalist Bindyarani Devi might be an enormous contender within the 58 kg class, who had gained a gold and silver within the match beforehand.
In the boys’s senior competitors, the celebs main the cost are N Ajith (71kg) and Ajay Singh (88kg), who secured gold medals in 73 kg and 81 kg within the 2023 version. (ANI)